(Guardian-UK) Amanda Holpuch - The U.S. government "secretly acquired" Soviet aircraft during the Cold War and tested them at Area 51, according to documents released Tuesday on the once-classified base deep in the Nevada desert. From January 1968 to April 1968, Israel loaned the U.S. Air Force a MiG-21, originally obtained by Israel in August 1966, to examine the plane's technical characteristics and evaluate its performance. The CIA in August confirmed the existence of Area 51 when it released declassified documents through a Freedom of Information Act request.
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